BURGESS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BURGESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BURGESS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BURGESS is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BURGESS
No single letter turns BURGESS into another word.
How BURGESS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in BURGESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,544 thousand.
What does BURGESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A citizen with full rights in a borough, or a member of parliament who represented a borough.
A burgess was typically a freeman of a town, entitled to share in its rights and government. The word also covered representatives sent to parliament, and in colonial Maryland and Virginia it named a member of the assembly.
How BURGESS is used
Used in historical contexts about towns, parliaments and colonial assemblies.
- Each burgess in the town had a vote in the council.
- The borough sent a burgess to represent it in parliament.
- A burgess of colonial Virginia sat in the assembly at Williamsburg.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BURGESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BURGESS
1 longer words begin with BURGESS.
Shorter words from the letters in BURGESS
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Common questions about BURGESS
- Is BURGESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BURGESS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BURGESS worth?
- BURGESS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BURGESS mean?
- A citizen with full rights in a borough, or a member of parliament who represented a borough.
- What letters can be added to BURGESS?
- No single letter can be added to BURGESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of BURGESS:
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